Corporate Travel Still Doesn’t Get Homesharing Despite Business Traveler Use
Photo Credit: A new survey shows corporate travel policies still do not widely allow the use of homesharing by business travelers. In this photo, an Airbnb property in Rotterdam is shown. Flickr / List
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Business travelers and their employers want safety, quality, and consistency; if homesharing companies can provide those things, we expect more acceptance from travel policies.
Homesharing services such as Airbnb might be solidly in the mainstream for vacationers, but in the cautious, wary world of corporate travel, the option is still an outlier.
A new survey from the Global Business Travel Association's education and research arm shows that just 17 percent of travel policies allow business travelers to stay at homesharing properties. The survey, which included responses from 147 North American travel managers, did not define the term or single out specific companies.
An earlier survey showed 37 percent of business travelers thought homesharing was allowed and another 22 percent didn't know either way, which suggests some workers are staying in such properties against company policy. Projections say that by the middle of this year, one of every five business travelers wi
